Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Please discuss. Because I can't.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ree-speech-is-in-peril?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ree-speech-is-in-peril?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Public servants and social media
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pink poodle
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So glad to other he part of this is us anymore. These newly worded restrictions don't seem any different to the previous, just a little more modern in scope.
Flow-Rider
Burner
Whistle blowers be gone!!!
From what I'm aware that is likely the case....., the second sentence, not that first pile of auto-correct-jumbled-shite. It's a clarification of already existing rules.
Heard discussion with a lawyer who specialises in internet law stuff and he said that there is actually no codified freedom of speech in Australia due to no bill of rights. Anyone have a counter-argument on that (asks the dude too lazy to dig through the constitution himself....)?
Flow-Rider
Burner
TBO it's not any different from most work place policies these days, that's why I hardly ever post anything up about my workplaces. You're made to sign a confidentiality agreement, stuff like no photos are to be taken without permission and Intellectual property stuff. I still take photos for personal records even though I take a risk of being pinged for it.
Exactly what the lawyer said as well.
Sounds like we're turning into North Korea.
Social media users need to agree that social media is purely for things of joy, hilariously funny memes and for looking up photos of hot girls. For fucks sake, we complain that journo';s are useless, the media is trash blah blah blah but we're all to blame if everyone sooks and moans about other people's business all the time.
If you are the type of person that catches the eye of your employer because you actioned something on Facebook even remotely relevant to your workplace then there's problem more reason to you getting the arse than liking a Facebook post.
Social media users need to agree that social media is purely for things of joy, hilariously funny memes and for looking up photos of hot girls. For fucks sake, we complain that journo';s are useless, the media is trash blah blah blah but we're all to blame if everyone sooks and moans about other people's business all the time.
If you are the type of person that catches the eye of your employer because you actioned something on Facebook even remotely relevant to your workplace then there's problem more reason to you getting the arse than liking a Facebook post.
steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
perhaps irrelevant insofar as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is enforceable
"Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
rowdyflat
chez le médecin
Yeah well I work for myself and dont use facef*ck so I'm not gonna complain .
If I was a public servant i would go mad but it seems like it would be possible to hide your identity and not give anything away to show you are an insider.
I hate secrecy designed to hide criticism of incompetence , corruption etc its like a totalitarian police state , hardly worthy of Australia.
If I was a public servant i would go mad but it seems like it would be possible to hide your identity and not give anything away to show you are an insider.
I hate secrecy designed to hide criticism of incompetence , corruption etc its like a totalitarian police state , hardly worthy of Australia.
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
From my, admittedly pedestrian, understanding of the Australian constitution, it relates to the fair and representative governance of the populance, and doesn't contain anything approaching the US' bill o' rites. Any references to freedom of speech relate to the protection of an elected representative to address a subject considered important to their constituents, without risk of sanctions or litigation. So essentially "freedom of speech" boils down to parliamentary privilege, which has unfortunately seemed to have devolved into the right to call your opposition "big, stinky, poopedheads" without the fear of having to duke it out behind the shelter shed after question time has let out for big lunch.
That is, of course, you're using it as an abstract concept to pander to the bias' and insecurities of ignorant, biggots whose only knowledge of the way their country works comes from the popular culture of another country: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/ga...o/news-story/60ba176acb6bd80391225a895d88960b
Cos apparently, poofs getting hitched will destroy every God fearing Australian's 1st ammendment rights...
FFS, even Kafka couldn't have come up with this shit.
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Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
True dat. :spy:
ACT has a bill of rights.... you know where all the APS are, i also doubt that it would hold up at fair work when someone gets fired for this.
unless they did something really stupid like run a fake paul keating twitter and make make some pretty rude comments about someone
he tends to be a bit more eloquent in his delivery, then again given how most are with a few drinks in them
pink poodle
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Yeah I don't know what was going on there. Must have been some newspeak.
Public servants have some protections as whistle-blowers. Freedom's speech is an implied thing in Australia, unless you're Andrew Bolt.
We have seen how well our government abides by such things inrelation to rights of the child and asylum seekers.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
We are not allowed to talk about anything "work", no social media, no pictures, no chat of what happened today/yesterday and I only work for an Electricity Generation company.
I'm surprised they have a policy to make me wear Hi-Viz PPE to even enter the site... with their logos on it.
Who knows how paranoid they are getting, there might be a policy stopping me from calling in to the servo and dog-roll shop on the way to work in the future.
I'm surprised they have a policy to make me wear Hi-Viz PPE to even enter the site... with their logos on it.
Who knows how paranoid they are getting, there might be a policy stopping me from calling in to the servo and dog-roll shop on the way to work in the future.
Freedom of Intelligent Speech...
Pretty much. Social media guidelines are there for a reason. Criticise your private company, or release confidential information (inc pics) and you'll find yourself finding it hard to stay.
Al..
Ozzy - I work for the middle man in that equation, and know where you are coming from